ANTH 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Douglas, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology

• School: University of Adelaide
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1105
• Professor: any

Document Summary

Elise carr completed who registered nursing 40 years ago and recently gained her phd in anthropology. Medical anthropology: human experience of human health and illness involving social, biological and psychological, shaped by social institutions, mediated by culture. This lecture features uncomfortable material which is not normally publically discussed so take notice of adverse reactions as they demonstrate the concept matter out of place". Mary douglas, dirt is matter out of place". It is something which is disordered and requires ordering. This lecture will address excrement in the following contexts: historical, cultural, medical, social. Bodily excretions can come in many forms including: urine, excrement, vomit, blood, sweat, political (resistance, contemporary culture, anthropology, tears, siemen, pus, breath, menstrual fluid. For describing such functions as excrement" or going to the toilet" society employs a number of euphemisms. Faeces out of sight, out of conversation and out of mind are clean" sjaak van der geest, professor.